linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] use round_jiffies() for slow work thread pool's 5 second cull timer

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Message-ID: <5083.1242215914@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 12:58:34 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] use round_jiffies() for slow work thread pool's 5 second cull timer

Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com> wrote:

> This is a revised patch to round the slow work queue's 5 second timers to 
> whole seconds with round_jiffies().

Why?  Your patch description doesn't say.

David
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